Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls for US to keep attracting top tech talent

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for Washington: keep the door open for the world’s best engineers. On the BG2 podcast on October 15, 2026, Huang argued that the US must keep pulling in top tech talent from abroad, immigrants included. That puts the head of one of the most closely watched companies in AI at odds with recent immigration policy. What Huang said Huang framed skilled immigration as a structural advantage. He argued that the lawful flow of talented people and new ideas into the country gives the US an edge that rivals struggle to copy. “We want all the world’s great minds to come here, bring their great ideas.” Huang has described America’s ability to attract talent as a superpower, and he tied Nvidia’s own rise directly to immigration, stating that the success of Nvidia would not have been possible without immigration. He was not arguing for an open-door free-for-all, though. Huang has pushed for what he describes as a balanced framework, one that deters abuse of the system while still giving companies access to elite global expertise. The policy backdrop In September 2025, the Trump administration used an executive order to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B appli...